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Hi, I got Harvey S4 twintec water softener installed by builder and it appears to be working ok (as consuming salt) but water sometimes feel hard for a week and next week it feels soft silky. I asked builder to have a look and he simply changed the white dial settings as shown in the picture...

Hi All, My builder has recently finished the complete house renovation with around 10m long flat 'cold deck' roof on each side of the house extension and didn't put any abuttment ventilation on the sides touching the wall. Roof is GRP. He had only put the ventilation holes on the soffit. All...

Hi, I am looking for some qualified advise here to deal with a 'noisy' radiator issue (not because of air .. but because of a high flow of water through the radiators due to heavy pump installed by the engineer. It all started when I got new boiler and plumbing done recently as part of house...

Hi I am going with new installation of system has boiler from Vailant 30kwh and a new hot water cylinder. Though there's no plan to put solar or heat pump as if now, we may consider this in the future. So, if I go with the vailant unistor heat pump compatible hot water tank instead of a...

Hi, Plumber has setup a CH design like above and said the 4 radiators on the ground floor (R5,6,7,8) fed by the down pipes coming from the ceiling doesn't need the air bleed valve where I have marked with circles because air lock can bleed from the highest radiator on the first floor (R2) and...

Hi, I am going through the new installation of central heating system as part of renovation and decided to go with the vailant gas boiler for the time being instead of heat pump. However, to future proof it for heat pump installation in couple of years, wondering if I can get the heat pump...

Hi, I have a vaillant system boiler of 18kwh size and even after it's on for more than an hour, the flow temperature shown on the front panel is at around 48c with gas burning very slowly whilst whole house is cold. Every few minutes (not timed the interval), gas burning intensity increases...

Hi, My bedroom radiator makes lound tick tick noise whenever heating is turned on and then it does it at intermittent intervals which match with the modulation happening on the boiler i.e. when boiler start firing up at higer pace making flow temperature to reach near cut off point and then...

Hi, I have a Honeywell timer and room thermostat with one zone for CH and one for HW under Y plan mid position valve. I am looking to replace it with Heatmiser control so that I can control the heating and hot water remotely and use the geo location feature that turns off CH if no one is...

Hi, We moved into a new home where there's already a security alarm installed. However the previous owner had died and there's no info whatsoever regarding the alarm so wondering how can we reset the code to make it work again. Attached are the two pictures of the alarm. I cannot see any other...

Hi, I have old style radiators where there only a small bleeding nut on top of radiators and the bathroom doesn't have towel rails either. The magnaflow filter is sealed with jointing compound to avoid leak from the sealing rubber so I can't open it without replacing the whole unit Attached is...

Hi I have moved to a different home which has Vaillant Echo tech plus 418 boiler installed with open vented cylinder and a central heating system. The thermostat on the cylinder is set to 60C and the boiler has two radial dials in front to control the flow temperature, both of which are set to...

Hi, I have a vented cylinder where hot water outlet pipe is going from the side (marked as blue in picture) of the cylinder and the expansion water pipe is going from the top (marked with red) which is not feeding hot water but just the expansion pipe leading to the gravity fed tank above...

Hi, I am looking to replace the normal light switch (on/off flick button) with this PIR switch (with On / Off / PIR / MIC sensor) as shown in picture E4 and need bit of help in confirming the wiring as this diagram has confused me. New PIR sensor has only two slots for wire labelled as 'AC'...

Hi, I am planning to put underfloor electric heating in Kitchen (8m2 - 1120watt) which seems fairly straight forward with my current DIY skills. Just need to confirm if I can run the power to electric heating (using thermostat) via 3 pin plug in one of the available socket in the kitchen...

Hi Guys, I just want to double check my understanding before I start this small piece of work. I have got few spike lights setup in the garden which I want to turn on automatically at dusk and adjust the swtiched on time from few hours to dawn. Toolstation is selling IP44 dusk to dawn switch...

Hi I have really foul smell coming in the kitchen from last 2 months. Smell doesn't come everyday and every time but most days. Sink has got P traps installed etc and I suspect the air admittance valve has gone wrong. Soil pipe is terminating inside kitchen just above the sink level and hidden...

There is drop of water dripping every 10 minutes from a joint between socket and valve. (as shown in the picture). This was put in place using ptfe tape and tightened to the end. It cannot be tightened any further or remove and refitted with more tape etc. I believe the leak is so small that it...

Hi, I have got 14 radiators in total and three of them have got TRVs installed on the return side. 2 of them are downstairs which are not heating up too much as compared to all other radiators. I went through balancing myself (have to do it again little better this time). Could anyone please...

Hi, I have: - - an open vented central heating system with F&E tank in the loft. - Sealed cylinder hot water (megaflow). Guess it won't matter with the issue explained below - Boiler is flexicom hx30 heat only. Most often (but not absolutely everytime), water drips from the expansion tank...